On
April 2, 2008 CNN spent the day bringing awareness to the problem of
autism. Larry King’s segment, which included Jenny McCarthy along
with a panel of guests, was particularly enlightening. My hat is off
to Jenny, a celebrity mother who is making it quite uncomfortable for
the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to ignore parents of Autistic children
seeking answers. Why does a mom have to do the work of the CDC? The
answer is rather simple: our government’s zeal to insist on too
many vaccines while ignoring the actual risks is the driving force behind
the autism tragedy. Sure there are many related factors – but
the bottom line is that our government is causing disease at an alarming
and devastating pace.

It
is an interesting comment on our society that an outspoken and impassioned
mother of an autistic child, along with her partner (actor Jim Carrey),
are the catalysts that are likely to cause a warped empire to crumble.
Many before them have tried; and typically been burned at the stake.
Jenny and Jim are the government’s worst nightmare. They can’t
shut down their medical practice because they don’t have one.
They can’t financially damage them into silence. And as they lead
their autism March on Washington D.C. this June 4th it is quite clear
that they haven’t a prayer of shutting them up. A powder keg is
about to blow.

Jenny,
to her credit, takes a diplomatic view on vaccines. Here main point
is that there are too many vaccines given too soon and that the vaccines
contain too many toxic components. As both a leading defender of health
freedom in this country and a top nutritionist who has helped numerous
autistic children, I am more than happy to put the entire problem into
perspective and give insights that will help many parents.

A
Brief History of Vaccines, Profits, and Politics

Vaccines
started the Big Pharma sickness industry over 100 years ago. While the
public views vaccines in a preventive health context our government’s
position is much more complex. Vaccines and germs are part of warfare,
and the issue is deeply woven into national security interests. Military
personnel are frequently subjected to experimental vaccines. Vaccines
are a key component of herd mentality; i.e., the ability of those in
power to get a population to behave. Public health is never in the best
interest of any one person, which is why laws are concocted to enforce
compliance. Unelected bureaucrats and scientists in our government agencies,
tied financially to the profits of the drug industry and linked to the
military, have been playing God for many decades. They know full well
there will be deaths and injuries from vaccinations; collateral damage
that is justified by prevented disease (a convenient and fear-driven
argument).

Our
government has no problem manipulating data so that the benefits appear
to outweigh the risks. Imagine having a calculator that always has the
same conclusion no matter what data is entered. How can the risk of
injuring 1 in 150 children for life be acceptable to Big Pharma and
the revolving door CDC and FDA management? Any business would love to
have the opportunity to produce a product and have the government mandate
its sale. Government officials find lucrative jobs in the industries
they regulate – after doing “good work.” Autism is
partly a side effect of the cancer within government agencies.

Our
government will never pay the price to screen children at risk for autism
– that would be too proactive and expensive on the front end.
They won’t even prepare a reasonable patient history checklist
that reflects obvious risk for vaccine injury – as too many parents
would opt out. Rather, our government specializes in lazy medicine –
fire a shotgun and if someone gets injured it is their fault for standing
there. Costs are now the burden of families on the back end of the equation;
more profits for the sickness industry. If autism didn’t have
painful little faces connected with it this problem would simply be
swept under the rug, as is the 100,000 Americans (mostly elderly) killed
by Big Pharma drugs every year.

The
problem for our government is that an admission of guilt on the autism-vaccine
link causes the entire paradigm of the Big Pharma-driven Western-medicine
sickness industry to collapse. Even worse in their eyes, it would send
an earthquake through the brotherhood of Big Pharma, public health,
the CDC, the FDA, the global elite, and the military. Other public health
programs would be questioned – like polluting our water with a
neurotoxin called fluoride that makes a population more docile and controllable.

Unfortunately
for parents combating autism, the problems of their child is only a
portion of the issue they now must try to solve. They are up against
a government dead set on preventing the truth from ever coming out.
Once cornered, our government will play the national security card before
fessing up to their sins or making any real effort to correct the damage
they have done.

A
Major Crack in Our Government’s Armor

The
case of Hannah Poling is raising quite a stir. She is now 9 years old.
As a healthy and normally developing 18-month-old girl she showed up
for her well baby visit and was pummeled with 9 vaccinations, two of
them containing the mercury preservative known as thimerosal. Her health
immediately deteriorated into full blown autism.

Her
case was the first to be settled of 4,900 autism cases pending before
federal Vaccine Court. She claimed that mercury-containing vaccines
were the cause of her autism. In a shocking turn of events the federal
government conceded this autism case saying that “compensation
is appropriate.”

However,
our government refused to admit vaccines caused her autism. Indeed,
the government settled the case before there was even a hearing. The
last thing the government wants is to put vaccines on public trial,
and place pictures of injured children on the news every night, especially
when the evidence of the case is so clear that vaccines will certainly
lose.

Rather,
the CDC is hinting that it was Hannah’s mitochondria that were
to blame, not the vaccines. This argument opens another Pandora’s
box (more on that later).

The
defendant in all vaccine cases is the Department of Health and Human
Services. The CDC is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Talk about conflict of interest! A pack of foxes is in charge of the
national chicken coop.

How
Our Government Defends Itself When It Is Clearly Wrong

It
is somewhat unfortunate that those who have helped to champion the cause
of our government’s involvement in vaccine injury have placed
so many eggs in the thimerosal basket. Of course mercury is a nerve
toxin and its involvement in autism is likely as a percentage of the
problem. However, neither thimerosal nor any single vaccine is an adequate
overall explanation for autism. .

Our
government is using various studies to deflect the vaccine-autism link.
These studies relate to thimerosal and MMR vaccines, but not to the
collective number of vaccines given at one time and the overall number
of vaccines given so early in life (the real problem). This flimsy government
defense (read
their vaccine studies here) is being used to deflect attention away
from vaccines as a causative link to autism.

This
is a classic stalling tactic used by corrupt government and industry
when they have been caught red-handed. This approach involves acknowledging
certain aspects of the problem, making changes (they took thimerosal
out of many vaccines), creating doubt (their “study” defense),
and then continuing with the mass vaccination program even though they
know it causes harm. This strategy will deflect most of the legal liability
from vaccine-related injury, delaying it and then minimizing it over
time. A legion of government-funded scientists can be paraded in a courtroom
for decades with the sole purpose of creating doubt and delaying taking
responsibility for the problem. An admission of guilt opens a floodgate
of liability lawsuits.

They
think their skimpy studies give them breathing room so that they can
now direct attention elsewhere to mysterious possibilities like genetics
or environmental toxins that will also take them decades to figure out.
True enough, these issues are also a percentage of the problem –
so much so that they can be used to confuse the vaccine link for a long
time. The government’s defense is always that more research is
needed. This is not research that proves what they are doing is safe
before they continue to do it; it is research that proves what they
are doing is harmful before they stop doing it. Unfortunately, behind
closed doors they cherry pick their research results as well as what
they choose to study.

In
the mean time these unelected bureaucrats continue to unabashedly administer
a vaccine program that injures and kills. Most societies would either
call this murder or involuntary manslaughter. Why don’t we hear
Bush, McCain, Clinton, or Obama weighing in on this issue? Why don’t
they stand on stage with a group of autistic children and tell mothers
everywhere how important vaccines are?

When
the Hannah Polling case got on the radar map and blew up in the government’s
face, a damage control press conference was held. Dr.
Julie Gerberding, Director of the CDC, stated, “There's absolutely
nothing changed in the adamant recommendations that we are making to
get children vaccinated. This is proven to save lives and is an essential
component of health protection for children across America and the world.”
Dr. Gerberding should be the first to stand trial.

Why
Vaccines are a Problem

It
is quite clear that the rate of autism in this country is directly time-associated
with the increased numbers of vaccines given to children. The explosion
in autism between 1987 and 1992 coincides with the tripling in the numbers
of vaccines given to our children. While such data is not proof of cause
and effect, it is significant and cannot be ignored by any responsible
parent (it is ignored by the government and medical profession).

Numerous
parents report taking their healthy child to the doctor, getting a barrage
of vaccinations, having their child run a high fever, and their child
never again being the same. THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM THAT PARENTS SEE
WITH THEIR OWN TWO EYES.

The
current government strategy is to keep arguing about thimerosal and
MMR vaccines – as they know they can create enough doubt to win
that argument in the majority of the scientific community. What the
government does not want to discuss is the adjuvant in vaccines –
which will clearly be shown to be the autism trigger.

Vaccines
contain weakened “signatures” of a disease. By themselves
they are not strong enough for the immune system to mount a response.
This problem is solved by adding a “booster” compound called
an adjuvant. An adjuvant does not contain any signature of the disease.
Rather, the adjuvant initiates an inflammatory reaction (the first step
in any immune response). The idea is to get the immune system revved
up so that it can see the weakened disease and learn what it looks like
so that if it ever sees it again it will be more prepared to fight it.
This concept, in and of itself, has validity – but only given
the right set of circumstances.

It
is clear that those with autism have an excessively
inflamed brain. If pressed, the CDC would likely argue that the
brain inflammation is a result of the autism and that they need more
studies to determine the cause. I will argue that they don’t need
any more studies at all and that the cause is blatantly obvious based
on an understanding of existing science. The multiple
inflammatory insults from the adjuvant
in vaccines, at a rate of 1 in 150 cases, sets the brain on fire
and causes autism. As an aside, and to a lesser extent (but just as
important to society), a minor brush fire causes ADHD and impaired intelligence.

How
Your Brain Works

The
crumbling paradigm of Western medicine likes to break down body function
according to convenient classifications such as nerves, immunity, hormones,
etc. In reality your brain is a central processor of all systems in
your body and thus has connections that link nerves, immune function,
and hormones into one symphony of function. In other words, it is not
possible to study only neurotransmitters like serotonin or dopamine
and actually understand what your brain is doing.

Ten
percent of the cells in your brain are neurotransmitter related. The
other 90% are glial cells, also called astrocytes. For decades scientists
thought that 90% of your brain was nothing more than a structural framework,
simply because scientific tools were not adequate to understand what
glial cells were doing, but that has changed in the past 10 years. Glial
cells run your brain and your neurotransmitters. They are the brokers
of all information coming into your brain – with direct links
to your immune system and endocrine system (hormones).

Glial
cells are the inflammation brokers in your brain. When stress, a toxin
pollutant, or a destructive food additive (like MSG, aspartame, or food
coloring) enter your brain they induce excitotoxic reactions that inflame
brain cells. This inflammation is buffered primarily by the hormone
leptin and other antioxidants, a process that intimately involves the
healthy function of glial cells.

When
the buffering anti-inflammatory capacity of glial cells is overloaded,
then inflammation becomes chronic. Minimally, this results in brain
wear and tear. It is the mechanism behind all accelerated brain aging
and, depending on a person’s genetic weaknesses and other health
issues, leads to various states of early cognitive decline and nerve-related
diseases of aging such as Alzheimer’s.

There
is also a point at which low grade brain inflammation catches fire.
In adults with an established nerve network this causes a “power
outage” in the head, otherwise known as spreading depression.
Such an event is typically triggered by emotional pain or physical pain
of a prolonged nature or acute intensity (elevating substance P to abnormally
high levels). Such trauma pushes struggling nerves over the edge.

The
difference in a fetus or small child is that the nervous system is still
rapidly evolving. If the brain catches fire at this age proper development
of the nerves can be seriously disturbed (the autism spectrum of disorders)
or functionally impaired (ADHD, lower IQ).

The
adjuvant in vaccine is pro-inflammatory; i.e., neurologically excitotoxic.
That is intentional so as to boost the effectiveness of the vaccine.
The problem comes about when giving so many of them at once, which can
injure even a perfectly healthy child. Giving multiple adjuvants is
like playing Russian roulette with a child’s brain. Children with
already inflamed nerves are at much higher risk for reacting to multiple
vaccines, as their nerves have been conditioned to hyper-react. Don’t
think for a moment that Dr. Gerberding and other scientists at the CDC
aren’t fully aware of this issue.

Government
Responsibility

Our
government has the responsibility to prove the safety of any vaccination
being recommended for broad public health, as part of an overall vaccine
program. Our current knowledge of science, the immune system, and the
brain would make it unlikely that broad vaccine programs could ever
be approved for use today if they hadn’t being going on for so
long.

Our
government is not only grossly negligent on the vaccine issue itself,
but on numerous other true public health issues that pose a significant
risk for brain inflammation in fetuses and children. The CDC, the EPA,
and the FDA all play large roles in creating huge autism risk for our
population.

Space
in this article only allows a few examples; there are many. Environmental
pollution that is fat soluble can cross the placenta, exists in mother’s
milk, or occurs in the general food supply fed to small children. Fat
soluble toxins cross the blood-brain barrier and induce nerve inflammation.

Huge
public health risks include widespread contamination of our food supply
with fat soluble PCB toxins, a problem that would cost at least 50 billion
dollars to clean up. Another example of broad exposure is the neurotoxic
pesticides used on food (originally Nazi nerve gas agents). Another
example is the military’s poisoning of our water supply with perchlorate,
a contaminant now found in breast milk of mothers across the country.
This interferes with thyroid function in the baby, resulting in a serious
risk for faulty brain development.

Another
example is iron fortification of baby formulas, which encourages the
growth of hostile bacteria and Candida Albicans in the child’s
digestive tract; organisms that produce neurotoxic waste products. Another
example is the use of antibiotics before age 1, which also encourages
the growth of the very same hostile bacteria and Candida. C-Section
deliveries also increased the risk for a hostile digestive terrain in
the baby. Candida itself directly communicates to and promotes
inflammation in the human immune system causing it to malfunction.

Yet
another example is the widespread use of antidepressants by pregnant
and nursing mothers, which drastically disturbs the evolving function
of nerves and overall health of the fetus or baby. And then there is
the vaccine preservative thimerosal (different than an adjuvant), which
is a neuro-inflammatory in and of itself. And this is the short list.

All
of these issues play a role as a percentage of the problem that induces
friction in the developing nervous system of a fetus, baby, or young
child and primes the nerves to hyper-react to vaccines. Each of these
problems is a true public health problem because they are caused by
industry and are allowed to continue by various vested interests. Each
one will take tens of billions of dollars to fix. However, that is actually
the responsibility of government – to fix costly and broad public
health problems – not to make them worse.

The
Genetic Red-Herring

The
case of Hannah Poling has forced our government to show its hand –
and a very weak hand it is. They will continue to bluff and confuse
the public with scientific gibberish in an effort to misdirect. Their
defense in the Poling case, even though they conceded the case, is that
the child had genetic mitochondrial dysfunction.

Mitochondria
are the car engines in your cells that produce energy (ATP). ATP is
the energy currency in your body, much like money in your wallet. You
spend ATP, as needed, to do anything. Inflammation uses up ATP by causing
your body to go into a hyper mode (like a 911 phone call). If ATP production
is compromised then inflammation can run wild – contributing to
the brain fire called autism.

True
mitochondrial gene mutations are too rare to explain autism, so the
government is trying to blame this mechanism in the Poling case to deflect
the idea that vaccines are a risk for the majority.

What
the government isn’t saying is that, independent of a true genetic
issue, mitochondria can be taxed into a state of stress that predisposes
any child to autism risk. You don’t need to have a gene mutation;
that is simply a diversion and cover-up attempt.

Furthermore,
the glial cells in your brain use ATP to communicate, a separate function
than energy currency. This means that any time you run low in overall
body energy, brain function is compromised and tilted into a pro-inflammatory
mode. This is why stress makes you tired and causes you to feel physical
wear and tear. It is also why any time you exercise, which conditions
your body to make ATP more efficiently, your head feels better. When
glial cells run low on ATP they enter a low grade chronic inflammatory
mode – a condition that seriously predisposes to vaccine injury.

Reducing
the Risk for Adverse Vaccine Reactions

The
bottom line for any parent is to not expose their child to vaccines
under circumstances that are likely to increase the odds of a brain
fire that results in autism. Fewer vaccines in general, not giving so
many at once, and giving them at older ages are all common sense.

Additionally,
proper nutrition during pregnancy, during lactation, and the overall
fitness and health habits of the mother have a profound effect on having
a child with a stronger nervous system. It is quite clear that the obesity
hormone leptin
is elevated in the blood of autistic children. This is a risk factor
linked to obesity in the mother with consequent abnormal fetal programming
of the developing brain which is then handicapped to buffer inflammation
from toxic exposure like vaccines.

High
leptin in the blood means that leptin isn’t getting into the brain.
Leptin is the primary buffer in the brain against inflammatory excitotoxic
damage. This is why boys have four times the rate of autism compared
to girls. Girls have naturally higher levels of protective leptin in
their brains, mostly to help them get pregnant and nurse their children
in later life. My books on leptin (Mastering
Leptin and The
Leptin Diet) explain how leptin works in much greater detail. A
mother’s health and eating habits, prior to and during pregnancy,
play a large role in the health of her baby’s nervous system.

Likewise,
family stress during pregnancy and early childhood development are important
to how a child processes stress and consequent nerve inflammation. Conflicts
between husband and wife, in front of a child (including a child in
the womb), primes nerves to be inflamed. Providing a stable environment
for mother and child is a main reason for the family unit – and
in my opinion the responsibility of men.

Thus
we see that there are multiple factors, some under your control and
many that are not, acting in one way or another to prime the nerves
into a chronic low-grade inflammatory state which sets the stage for
increased risk of vaccine injury.

One
of the very worst times to vaccinate a child is directly after an illness
or surgery – which are highly inflammatory events. Unfortunately,
doctors don’t seem to understand health very well and it is often
the case that the parent has brought the child to the doctor because
of an illness or a follow up from some other medical procedure. At that
time the doctor says “Oh, your vaccinations are not up to date.”
And then gives them to a child who is already neurologically inflamed.
Such medical malpractice is a disaster, and common in this country.

Parents
who have children with digestive problems, recurring infections, asthma,
allergies, or any other sign of immune weakness should not vaccinate
until such problems are fully resolved. These problems also indicate
a high level of existing brain inflammation.

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It
is pathetic that the CDC does not publish a list of guidelines for parents
that would dramatically reduce the risk for vaccine injury (low cost
and low tech). The “more research is needed” excuse is enough
to make everyone vomit. Of course we could do far more by screening
for inflammatory brain markers and immune system dysfunction ahead of
any round of vaccines (high cost and high tech). The days of blindly
vaccinating children according to a schedule, while ignoring the child’s
state of existing nerve inflammation and immune system function are
over. Parents should revolt. This is a national tragedy. The government’s
vaccination program is indeed the cause of the autism epidemic.

Richards
encourages individuals to take charge of their health, stand up for their
health rights, and not blindly succumb to propaganda from the vested-interests
who profit from keeping Americans sick. As founder of Wellness Resources,
Inc. of Minneapolis, MN, an independently-owned fine-quality dietary supplement
company since 1985, he has personally developed 75 unique nutraceutical-grade
nutritional formulas. www.wellnessresources.com